Mr BRINTON reads the future in a
Chinese pattern
I
.ASKED Tatton Brinton: "What will the next fashion in carpets be?" Five generations of Brintons looked down on us from the panelled dining-room walls as we discussed carpets--and addressed the port.
There they all were-from the first William Brinton who started the family in carpet-making back in 1783 to young Tutton in his war-time uniform na a major in the 12th Lancers.
"If anyone could really prediet that," he said, "he could almost nomo his price."
For several yenra contem- porary designs have been in high Javour, Now a slight check to their popularity has set designers wondering.
From the top of the lable 74- year-old Mr Cell Brinton, the head of the family 11m and
Talion's father, said Chines patterns might well be the next favourile.
A breather
Up in the design room Bill Holden, whose job is peering
into the future, thought contein- porary styles were just having o breather. They would soon be as popular as ever, he said.
A carpet is something you do not Hghtly discard. Once in a home it becames part of the family for quite a few years.
Su fashions are important to housewives who usually have the last word in home furnish- Ing. And housewives, with their whims, are of immense im- portance to the carpet manufac- turers.
How can you make sure that the carpet catching your eye, in the shop is a good one?
The weave Tatton Brinton, stocky, jovini tell you that the and 11, wil masi ituportant thing to look for is the closeness of the weave. ln Jayman's longunge this men that the more lightly the tufts together, of wools are packed the better the quality general rule.
A5
if the weave before "Look you worry about the pile," is
is advice.
And what about prices? They vary with quality. But paying un extra 50 per cent cun BV2 you three times as much wear.
he says.
As one of Britain's livelier
manufacturers, Tatton Bristol has a large collection of DO' and DON'Ts about carpets.
On stairs they wear out four times as fast as anywhere else, He advises laying an extra 18
by
ALEXANDER THOMSON
Inches or so, and having them moved up and down un inch or two every year.
"That way stair carpets will last up to four times as long,"
the clim
You will not find carpet ellus He on the stairs of his house. belleves rods are much better Drily In 1or keeping carpels position.
Underfelts
THE CHINA >> MAIL;," MONDAY," NOVEMBER “11;** 1957; **
The day I married
Diana
Dors (FES)
FOUR TIMES
:)
I HAD a friend and my friend had Asian flu, so because I am a kindly man I went to see him.
Besides, I have a special kind of sprightly cheerfulness which goes down well at the bedside. 1 charge into the sick room with n few lively jokes, the point being, I feel, not to allow people to become oppressed by thing like a temperature of 104.
I know I do them good. Usually when I leave them their eyes are damp and moist and their handa tremble, doubtless with gratitude. And when I ring up to ask if I should pop in again I am told that it is not necessary really, they are much better really, and it would be a shame to put me to any trouble really.
But this time I did not have a chance to speak to the patient, for when I went into his room the first thing I 'saw was a man in a smock standing by the bed.
In one hand he held some- thing like a small fretsaw, in the other hand was a shining bright instrument, rather like a thin chisel,
'Lucky me'
ne another must THIS fu must be really serious," I thought as
home.
And
In the Brinton whenever a new carpet is put
"Vacuumed" down it is never
Brush the for the first month.
they settle down. Bahtly un
he says.
Tafton, who is a spare-time:|| hult farmer growing black- currants and gooseberries, knows all about the hard wear carpets He can get in a family home. has five children, ranging from 18 lo two.
thx
I tiptoed nway, Sick Tooma I enjoyed but blood, no. I cannot stand the sight of blood.
by
WILFRED FIENBURGH
→→→→→ M.P.-
And
into
"Please understand. This is sunstroke. 1 am very l}," nothing trivial. I am not suffer-before I slammed the telchpone ing from housemaid's knee, acid down I breathed hard indigestion, or, a slight touch of the mouthpiece hoping passion.
In crowded places take advantage of space-age
100 LAS
equipment
3/ the bottle?!
SCH
RUN DOWN? Feeling groggy A Swallow
THEN REACH
FOR
ately that
some of the germs might crawl down the wire and till him.
It was a relief to ស the doctor, I smiled bravely at him because I cannot stand people
their who take
Indispositions seriously. teven managed a joke,
brave..
*» «Et.wan just. my Asian flu vision. But who
was the men
with: m' fretsaw 1-
TEENAGE
HOPE
FOR
FRANCE
"Bigger families have cooler kids"
by Harold King, Reuters Correspondent
atutudo
Paris. Bring with them, it is cons=" NIGHT million long-play- dently expected here, a more "How can you tell it's Asian
resolute and
enterpricing way flu, doctor? Do the germs have ing gramophone records of facing life, which se sloniing eyes?" I laughed, still will have been sold by the already to be foreshadowed in
their
towards the of question of pocket-money.
An elderly lady of a well known aristocratic family went"; to Vichy for hir usual cûre this,” A million motor-
She went your.
her usual will have been hotel and, as usual, tipped tha
who carrled in hai
Then she Juggage. of the collapsed. "It is my nephew,
on
end of this year to the jazz- "I have a simple test,"
adolescents he loving said. "If you get up
the France. third day and manage to get through a day's work” you have Over had a bad cold. But if you scooters develop pleurisy and double
pneumonia and die you have bought before the New boy
had Asian flu."
Fervenly
promised
some
Year by 2,500,000 French boys and she cried.
hearty.
to girls now between the ages **** The boy, 14 years old 10 of 16 and 20.
a
IL
stay in bed for At least day. The doctor took out hypodermic syringe, held up to the light and gave itɛan experimental squirt.
"Turn round," he said. turned and he stood paised bo- bind me.
ure
and
calmly explained to h horrified aunt: "You see, three arc These prophecies
sale. months' work here and I shall They
made by
the have enough money to buy statistical departments of the scooter when I got back
motorcar school in October, although I
have to share my tips with that old hail-porter."
school Working during the helldays to earn pocket-money- in now very widespread in France. "It has started com pletely to change our way of ilfo," Boys writer in
the
gramophone Iindustries and are based on continuous observation of the generations who started going to school since end of "Funny how many people hate World War II, Infections," he murmured: "I'll never forget the day the regi- mental heavyweight champion
so much that panicked
the of needle broke
in his arm. Funniest thing I've ever seen."
edited tion",
French
magazine
from
to the Labarthe.
He
of
France Everyone in
Caulie General de
the
"Constella by ·Andra reports thb.: I was not sorry
one of to see him youngest scclologist who broods experience
'trlends who go. Something was lacking, Iaver the future fate of France, wealthy business
discovered that the.
Im- suddenly thought, in his bedside manner. attaches
greatest portance to the new youth. carefully brought-up seventeenw They are far more numerous year-old daughter was working
1
FEEL LIKE
THIS! TAKE "THRAXO, for QUICK RESER
Dokto Pills
SURGRE
1/6 the box
A
Only when I got down- stairs did I find that the man had come to mend the bedside telephone.
How lucky I am, The chest is his son Topham, thought, that I do not catch How at an American university and who he hopes will follow these things. So I decided him and his father in to tonst my luck in spark- business. That would be in the ling light ale, but somehow Tumily tradition. For 174 years, all was not well. My cigar- The Brinton firm has been
ette tasted like paper wrap- honded on from father to son.
Today it is the biggest in theped in tobacco, and my industry still in family owner sparkling light ale fell with a thud to the plt of my stomach where it lay like a cold wet poultice, applied internally.
فراد
Its factories cover 20 acres in the middle of Kidder- minster. It has a payroll of 2,080.
(London Expresa Service),
GE
AL
The General Tire and Rubber
Export Company
AKRON, OHIO, U.S.A.
Then I sneezed, and a thin layer
deposited of fine sand itself between my eye-lids and my eye-balls. The cold pouitlee made me shiver. And that was that,
Next day I lay in bed amoking a thermometer, with hot bottles at my feet and on my chest. I was a very sick
#1071.
I
heard
Through my fever voices of chlidren going to school and the vacuum cleaner and washing machine. Then I drifted into dellrious sleep.
I walked down the aisle of a Inrge hollow church, dressed in morning suit and carnation, I waited at the altar as my bride walked towards me, her face veiled in lace. Dimly I won- dered what I had done with the wife and four children I already have, and then, my bride was at
vell and she looked up at me.
It was Dlana Dors.
take great pleasure in announcing my side. 1 peered through her
the appointment of their exclusive
sales agent for Hongkong & Macau
In a panic
THE HONGKONG TYRE CO. I AWOKE in a panle is the
Conoral Office & Sales:
25 Morrison Hill Road, Hong Kong. Telephone: 72455.
DUAL 90 NYGEN
Kowloon Salon: 39 Tonkin Street, Shamshulpo, Telephone. 57452.
FIVE STAR
(GENERAL):
telephone bell jangled
my ear drum and down every fibre and nervo. But I blessed it becouse, after all, it had rescucă me from a bigamous marriage, and I was even more comforled as I heard the friendly voice of
a colleague from my office.
I snuggled into the pillows lo enjoy a litle sympathy.
"Hangover?" he asked brightly."
Weakly I answered: "I have Asian flu
"Oh, that's all rigit," ha beamed., "as long as it is not derlous."
"Asian fu is the first cousin to the black death," I mapped. “Oh, nonsense," he cackled. "You'll be back at work in the | morning."
This roused ine. I sat up in 'bedi and --shouted into receiver."
the
Guard against auto-suggestion
hear no flu geyms
Depression
DEEP dopression seized me.
1 noticed a crack in the ceiling which I had never seen before. Why had 1 bought this house, I thought gloomily. The crack would get bigger and the ceiling would have to be redone,
than they two wars,
were between the as a holiday interpreter In
The high birthrate travel agency. and the popularity of having "My dear child," cafd fainé
"why on earth did you not tell children are the outstanding characteristics of present-day me that you wanted money? I
would have given it to you."
"My dear papa,” replied the In six or seven years' time, daughter, "you could not afford 900,000 young men and women what I need." will be reaching the age of 20 And the magazine writer every year. This year the new FUME the altuation
France.
or even worse, perhaps the arrivals of young adults were follows; crack was a sign of some serious only 800,000. They were bom structural defect. No doubt the in 1937, the year of the lowest whole house was slipping on its birthunte in the modern foundations, and I would soon history of France.
I see to fly germs
I speak no flu germs)
to £300,
If attacked without warning take immediate
psychological warfare counter action
If a colleague looka “quoor," taka emergency measures with, handkerchief and spray (better still, call for a
taxi and put yourself in ith
Don't take your temperature 200 offen - le · inducem.......
"Anxiety NEWTOSIS).
TONTO
Best of all-go to Asia, 'where, tha-flu presumably. * left long ago..
HOW TO AVOID
ASIAN FLU by CUMMINGS
be faced with builders' bills up
סט
At the present time the pro- "What this, father did not portion between the producing realise was that his daughter
Then I remembered that population and the non- paid her share whenever she depression was a symptom of producing population (made of went out with her friends. The Asian du and things were not tha
and the old habit of sharing expenses so bad after all. Perhaps the people) is at its most unfavour between boys and bill would only be £250.
able,
children
about
1
Birla Henceforth, It will be henceforth established gradually improving. This, France. Nor did he realise-the I lapsed again into delirium together with the discovery of high cost of the gramophone and there I was again, marrying big all resources in the French records and playing machines Diana Dora. I married Diana Sahara,.
explaine why many nowadays indispensable at any Dors four times that day.
French leaders pre extremely evening where adolescents are optimistic
France's gutherca together, northe future.
heavy cost of another itemi,in' the adolescent budget: sports France not only has far more in the summer, the cinema - in
taus the children today than she
winter. (25 per cent of had for many, decades. She all cinema receipts in France as a diferent sort of children, come from people under 21).
She used to be a country of "Nor did he know that, liko For various all her friends of both sexos,
At night the fever grow and I could not sleep, so I lay fret ting, trying to understand the reason for it all. I banished the theory that it was being done by the Red Moon. If the Red Moon were spraying germs they would, I felt, be so bewildered by the time they landed that the only child.
reasons, partly economic and his daughter had been dream- they might be more likely to partly the profound shock of ing for over six months of
World War I in which 1,000,000 owning her own motor-scooter”. males in the prime of lite out It is criculated that the total spent by #dolescents in
cause measles, than flu.
It was, I decided, due to sumo
atmospheric disturbance, pero a population of 40,000,000 pocket money"
Kllied, most married children and
haps the H-bomb. But still I were vas not satlalled. Then to the dawn smudged grey and dingy through the curtains, the truth
came to me.
been the Things had never same, I realised, since they put that flag on top of Everest.
And to prove it, to clinch the argument, I remembered
sinister piece of evidence.
For where la Everest?
T
Everest is in Asin. And where does this flu come from? Proot enough!
Headline.....
couples between the two wars France is some 500,000 milion
eliberately Umited their family francs (about £500,000,000) to one offspring. This educators year, a sum about equal to the ЧЕС agreed here, produced a total paid here In Income tax. Special mentality in the This is a heavy burden, on the younger generations.
family_budget, and moro and more French children are corn- ing their pocket-money them- selves instead of accepting t from their parents.
too
The only child tends to mature too quickly, to have adult reflexes"
BOCHL. It Incks the challenging Com- petition of brothers and sisters, hinds it more difficult to adapt itself to real life later.
The absence from their bores
during the five War years, 1814 to 1918, of some 5,000,000 husbanda and fathers revolutionised another lond standing French tradition, made the wife and mother the family. would, I anücipated, be full chlof authority in the
Mmorning papers.
[ISERABLY I waited for the They
Fronch
et unimportant headlines about According to come. Syria. Why, I thought, did the writers, she has never given up
***** this dominant position, newspapers not do their job this, in
think, turn, they
thelement, of
tell the world how serious this
and
("Don't catch
other
Au is, make everyone under reinforced stand how desperately we caution and timidity in the Asian flu-ers arot But would only child. they? I laughed sarderiically cold", "Don't fight the No, they would not, I decided, boys at school" "Don't forget to see the health Insurance are typical of the The papers como. I opened doctor". them. I read the first head- advice poured ocasciosely
the single “duckling" by the Hoo...
family,
The
́ ́SELU`DEATHS MOUNT.” It
said.
on
Now that is changing. adulls who will be joining the-
ranks of the nation toenorrow.
I closed my eyes and volume will be mostly members":"of tarily resigned from the world," larger „ familia.
POCKET CARTOON by OSDERT LANCASTER
“You know, I can't help wondering if we're not bei ing a little over-analana se qopid any hier of newco
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